Wastage tracking software for weaving units.
Same shift, not next month.
Track warp, weft, idle, and off-grade wastage per machine, per design, per shift. Variance flags surface in the same shift it happens — not in next month's reconciliation. Wastage vouchers post to accounts automatically.
Per-machine wastage. Same-shift variance. No reconciliation.
Per-machine, per-shift, per-design
Each loom's wastage tracked separately, attributed to the right design and supervisor. Two looms running the same design with different wastage profiles surface as a question, not a guess.
Same-shift variance flags
Each design master carries target wastage percentages. When supervisors enter doffing, actual wastage compares against target. Variance beyond threshold raises a flag in the same shift — not the next month's report.
Four wastage types tracked separately
Warp wastage, weft wastage, idle wastage, and off-grade wastage have different causes and different fixes. Lumping them into one number hides the diagnosis. MobiOffice surfaces each separately.
Wastage voucher to accounts, automatically
When a flag closes, the wastage voucher posts to the accounts module from the same entry. No parallel Tally entry. Month-end reconciliation between the floor and the books disappears.
The full wastage tracking workflow, in one place.
- Target wastage on each design master, tunable per design
- Variance threshold per wastage type and per loom
- Warp / weft / idle / off-grade splits
- Wastage by machine, design, supervisor, and shift
- Trend charts week-over-week and month-over-month
- Wastage voucher posting to accounts at end of shift
- Wastage attribution to root cause categories (mechanical, yarn, supervisor)
- Why track wastage per machine instead of per unit?
- Unit-level wastage tells you the total cost of waste; per-machine wastage tells you which machine is causing it. Two looms running the same design can have very different wastage profiles — usually because of mechanical condition, supervisor habits, or yarn batch issues. You can only fix what you can isolate.
- What are the four wastage types?
- (1) Warp wastage — warp ends broken or off-grade. (2) Weft wastage — weft yarn lost in setup, breaks, or overruns. (3) Idle wastage — yarn consumed during loom downtime. (4) Off-grade wastage — takas graded B or reject, where yarn produced sub-spec fabric. Each has different causes and fixes.
- How quickly should wastage variance be flagged?
- Same shift, ideally within an hour of variance crossing the threshold. Wastage caught at month-end is wastage you have already paid for. The arithmetic is brutal — a loom running 4% wastage when target is 2% on a typical mid-size unit costs ₹15,000–₹20,000 per month per loom.
- How are target wastage levels set?
- Targets are not aspirational — they are what your typical good loom produces on this design under normal conditions. Set them from 30–60 days of historical wastage by design and machine, take the median (not the average), and add a small allowance for normal variation. The discipline is detailed in the [track wastage per machine](/blog/track-yarn-wastage-per-machine) blog post.
- Does it work for any loom type?
- Yes. Water-jet, airjet, rapier, jacquard, dobby, shuttle, powerloom — all loom types are supported in the same data model. Wastage thresholds and target percentages are tunable per loom and per design.
Continue with related pages.
The actual interface — variance flags per loom, per shift.
Read →Wastage, taka grading, variance flags, accounts integration.
Read →Variance threshold approach, same-shift detection, three operational pointers.
Read →A simple ROI tool to quantify the cost of late wastage detection.
Read →What warp is and how warp breaks cause wastage.
Read →How sizing affects warp breaks and wastage.
Read →Want to see wastage tracking on a unit like yours?
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